With this special pop-up exhibition, we are providing an opportunity to view and purchase a selection of works that are still available from the auction to continue our fundraiser. The artwork will have a set price, plus a buyer's premium (15% for cash/check and 18% for credit card sales).Please contact Margaret Redington for more info: 978.546.6604

FRIDAY FIGURE SKETCH GROUP MEETS EVERY FRIDAY FROM 1:00PM-4:00PM IN THE RAA&M STUDIOThe uninstructed, open sketch sessions provide an excellent way to start your process of creating art. The model and duration of the poses varies each session.

Beginners have the opportunity to finally draw from a live model and make decisions on what to put down on paper. Seasoned artists can use the time to hone in on a specific problem area, or just come to keep their drawing skills fresh.MORE INFO

Using a variety of materials and techniques, create a work of art that is significant to you based upon your personal experiences. Build visual histories by drawing inspiration from your ever-changing environment. Layers of vibrant colors and expressive mark-making will help to convey a sense of balance and harmony from life’s intense struggles and passions.

Two days of getting intimate with your palette and creating color harmonies harvested from local motifs with focused observation. Led by Heidi Caswell Zander, you will be spurred on through demonstrations and critiques to heighten your use of color. Come enjoy intensifying your landscape painting with color! Heidi received her B.F.A. and M.A.T. from Rhode Island School of Design, painted as a member of the European Honors Society in Italy and has decades of art teaching experience in the U.S. and Europe. This workshop will be held outdoors, weather permitting.

Learn to dissect the landscape – retaining the important elements, while eliminating things that don’t contribute to the overall plan for your painting. Composition, values and color will be discussed. This is an oil painting workshop, but students are welcome to paint in a different medium if they choose.

Though painting on site comes with its own set of challenges, it is the artist’s surest way to learn how to create the feeling of “being there” in their painting. In this two-day workshop, we will focus on choosing and designing a composition that leads you into the painting and using values and color temperature to create the feeling of light on your canvas.

Each day will start with a discussion of technique and philosophy and a short demonstration. Students will then have the opportunity to paint, receiving individual instruction at each step. Our goal is to not only to produce better plein air paintings, but to gain new insights that will inform our studio work.

This is an oil painting workshop, but students are welcome to paint in a different medium if they choose.

New exercises in mixed media will help you to find your way by combining texture, color and design. This workshop offers creative experiments that stimulate the imagination toward more satisfying images. This class is for all of you who would like to expand your visual vocabulary, with an emphasis on mark making and easy handprints. Many techniques will be included to add to your personal approach to art making.

Join noted Cape Ann Art Historian and author Judith A. Curtis for a gallery talk and walk-through tour of the auction artists, as featured in her article from the April issue of American Art Review magazine titled “The Cape Ann School – A Voyage of Discovery.”

Each year, this prestigious fundraising event attracts serious collectors from across the country, as well as those just starting an art collection. Held in the Hibbard Gallery of the Rockport Art Association & Museum (RAA&M), the auction features works by master Cape Ann artists of the past such as: Aldro T. Hibbard, Anthony Thieme, Emile Gruppé, Harry A. Vincent, W. Lester Stevens, Max Kuehne, Marguerite Pearson, Antonio Cirino, Carl Peters, Frederick Mulhaupt, Jane Peterson, Emma Fordyce MacRae and many more. Our auction specializes in Cape Ann art, but is not limited to this region and also includes works by numerous other prominent historic American artists.

The paintings, drawings, and prints in this exhibition are personally hand-picked from the Rockport Art Association & Museum (RAA&M) permanent collection. With the Museum’s Annual Art Auction quickly approaching on May 4th, it seems only fitting to have this exhibition to introduce some of the artists whose work will be up for auction. This museum show is a tease, giving a temporary glimpse of the artists whose work holds a special place in our hearts and our homes.

Have you ever wanted to loosen-up your painting style? This 2–day indoor workshop is about learning how to paint more freely.

Rosalie Sidoti will help you become more spontaneous and expressive in your painting and teach you how this freedom is linked to creating an exciting work of art. Rosalie will emphasize, via a short demo, that there should also be a firm foundation of structure in your paintings using shape, value, color, edges and center of interest. All who attend will be able to apply the lessons learned to their own style of painting. This workshop is for oils specifically.

This show features works by RAA&M Artist Members whose work reflects a broad range of artistic styles and mediums, including Artist Member, Janet Wolahan and her piece entitled Slice of the Yard, Part 1.

This workshop will embrace the painting process and the importance of daily practice as a path to improving creativity and image making skills. Over the course of the workshop students will paint approximately 10 panels, guided by an artist who has made over 3,500 daily, consecutive, paintings - so far! A combination of demos, in-class assignments and individual instruction will teach students techniques to create fresh, deliberate marks. Using acrylic or oil paint students will discover approaches to simplify the process of painting and ways to stay inspired and motivated.

Lisa Daria Kennedy grew up along the northeast edge of the Hockomock Swamp in Massachusetts. Since 2009, she has committed to an on-going daily painting project. As a young adult cancer survivor, she discovered living is not just surviving. Each painting seeks to give a voice to the fiber of the everyday.

Kennedy received a BA from Roger Williams University, a BFA and MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Currently she is the Design Editor for the literary publication, Mount Hope and an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA.